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Professor Saiyid Nurul Hasan who hailed from an
illustrious family, which had given to the nation a galaxy of luminaries, was a
scholar, teacher, parliamentarian, minister, an ambassador to the USSR,
governor of West Bengal, a social worker and above all a generous and graceful
human being. His friends found him to be imbued with a traditional Lucknow
culture, the very embodiment of courtesy and good manners, suave, urbane and
highly sophisticated. To him personal ties mattered a great deal which he
cultivated irrespective of an individual’s politics or religion.

This book is a glowing tribute to the memory of
Professor Saiyid Nurul Hasan by his colleagues, students, relatives and friends
and also from a grateful History Department of Aligarh Muslim University which
under his stewardship had been elevated to the status of a National Centre of
Advanced Study in Medieval History. His area of study was as wide as his field
of action. A fact which is reflected in the topics and subjects chosen for this
volume. The essays are divided into five sections namely: Sufis; Sultans; Feudal
Order; Miscellaneous; and Reminiscences. The volume will be of much use to
medieval, modern, maritime and Central Asian historians and scholar.

Mansura Haidar
is a well-known specialist on history and culture of Central Asia. She has been
teaching Islamic History, History of Central and West Asia and medieval and
modern Indian history at the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History,
Aligarh Muslim University for the past thirty-eight years. She has a profound
knowledge of Islamic history both in terms of vastness of sphere and span and
her information is based on an in-depth study of the original sources.

Stealing The Environment: Social and Ecological Effects of Industrialization in Rourkela

By- Rajkishor Meher

In India as in other developing countries intensive
industrialization followed by urbanization has now attracted the attention of
urban ecologists to the issues of ecological degradation. An attempt has been
made in this study to examine not only the issue of industrial pollution,
patterns of human settlement and land use in the city, but also to investigate
the processes that have contributed to the deteriorating quality of life in
Indian cities. Apart from the problem of industrial pollution, this study
demonstrates how the social structure of a city also contributes to its
environmental decay.

The focus of this research has been on Rourkela which
as a city planned to support the Rourkela Steel Plant and its ancillary
industrial units, provides a unique opportunity to examine the linkages between
industrialization, patterns of urbanization and environmental degradation. The
approach adopted in this study is, however, a pragmatic one, which underlines
that rejection of modernity is not practicable given the altered gestalt of man
today. In other words, mere traditional knowledge systems in themselves are not
enough to tackle the problems of a burgeoning population, poverty, hunger and
disease.

Hence, instead of rejecting modern industrialization
as such the approach adopted here seeks to explore ways by which the resulting
ecological damage can be reduced, if not entirely eliminated.

Rajkishor Meher
is at present working as Reader in Sociology at Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre
for Development Studies, Bhubaneswar.